Challenges and Vision
CHALLENGES
The industrial sector is experiencing an unprecedented number of changes in recent years, from wide digital
transformation, introducing novel cyber threats, to new models that ease remote delivery and working from home.
These changes directly map to challenges that SECANT will address. Specifically:
Challenge #1
New models of remote delivery, especially in complex ICT infrastructures such as healthcare,
increase the potential impact of cyber security breaches to a level that has not been experienced before.
Compromising the confidentiality, integrity or availability of the information exchanged, to implement platforms
that permit people to work from home, means that attack surface is considerably broadened and adversaries can
disclose sensitive information, affect the integrity or correctness of the transmitted data, or even stop processes
and services from taking place.
Challenge #2
Modern ICT systems rely heavily on Internet of Things devices which act as sensors, used for
monitoring and diagnostics. Wearable devices are also very popular as they offer convenience through their
smaller factor and a wide range of services constantly expanding. As they are connected to networks, wearables
are also used to monitor the health of patients through their integrated sensors. The exceptionally large volumes
of data generated by IoT devices are impractical to monitor continuously for signs of compromise.
Challenge #3
A lot of organizations and especially those relying on complex ICT infrastructures are often
regarded as poor in terms of their cyber security practices because people processing private and sensitive data,
fall victims of malicious parties, exposing entry points to ICT infrastructures well protected from outsiders. The
level of security awareness is still disproportionately low compared to the criticality and potential of a security
breach in critical sectors.
VISION
The SECANT platform will enhance the capabilities of organizations’ stakeholders, implementing: (a)
collaborative threat intelligence collection, analysis and sharing; (b) innovative risk analysis specifically
designed for interconnected nodes of an industrial ecosystem; (c) cutting-edge trust and accountability
mechanisms for data protection and (d) security awareness training for more informed security choices. The
proposed solution’s effectiveness and versatility will be validated in four realistic pilot use case scenarios applied
in the healthcare ecosystem. Ultimately, SECANT will contribute decisively towards improving the readiness and
resilience of the organizations against the crippling modern cyber-threats, increasing the privacy, data protection
and accountability across the entire interconnected ICT ecosystem, and reducing the costs for security training in
the European market.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101019645.
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